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If I put the Desktop CD in and boot my machine, without pressing any keys in the process, all I see is this:
1. BIOS info screen (big ThinkPad logo)
2. Purple 'press a key for accessibility' screen
3. Black screen with cursor in top corner
What do I need to do during this process to see the messages you are after?
I have done further debugging:
I tried an Oneiric amd64 Daily build from Yesterday, it has the exact same problem.
I also tried a 10.04.2 LTS amd64 Desktop CD, which works fine (although it doesn't support my monitor resolution). So I was able to install 10.04.02 LTS on my laptop. I then went through Upgrade Manager to upgrade it to 10.10. After my system rebooted, it has the same problem as 11.04 - the blank screen.
BUT, at GRUB I have two Kernel options, so I selected the older one and it booted up into ttl1 console - no GUI, but at least I got a console. So I can now run commands on the box, under 10.10.
It is prompting me to upgrade to Natty, so I might give that a go later today and see how far that gets me.
The two Kernel options under 10.10 are:
BLANK SCREEN - 2.6.35-30-generic
CONSOLE ONLY - 2.6.32-28-generic